Hanger-rack.



I. W. MILLER. HANGER RACK.V

' APPLIGATION FILED DEG. 16, 190s.

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ISAAC W. MILLER, F ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HANGER-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1912.

Application filed December 16, 1908. Serial No. 467,869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC W. MILLER, a

' citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hanger-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hanger racks,

and more particularly to extensible hanger racks for clothing cabinets, wardrobes, and the like.

' It has for its principal objects to simplify the construction, to secure lightness and rigidity of struct-ure, to secure ease of operation, and to attain certain other advantages, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth,

The invention consists in the parts and in the arrangements and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Inthe accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and wherein like symbols refer .to like parts wherever they occur, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section through the upper portion of a cabinet equipped with an extensible hanger rack embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view showing in side elevation one end portion of a hanger rack embodying my invention and a carrier bracket therefor; Fig. 8 is a vertical cross section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and, Fig. 4 is a detail isometric view of one of the end blocks for the carrier member of* the rack.

In the drawings the hanger rack is illustrated as being mounted in the upper portion of an ordinary clothing cabinet or unit 1. The rack comprises a carrier member 2 and a hanger bar or member 3. The carrier member 2 is preferably composed of two formed sheet met-al channels which are placed back to back and riveted or otherwise rigidly secured together. The top and bottom edge portions of the channel members are grooved or channeled as at 4, whereby said carrier member construction constitutes in effect an I-beam having grooves or runways on either side thereof at the top and bottom. Preferably, these grooves or channels 4 are rounded as shown.

The carrier member 2 is supported by brackets 5 which are secured to the top of the cabinet 1. These brackets have depending side members 6 which have mounted thereon inwardly projecting studs 7 on the inner end portions of which are journaled antifriction roller bearings 8 for the carrier member. Preferably, the studs 7 have enlarged intermediate portions 9 which afford shoulders adapted to abut against the inner faces of the depending bracket members 6 whereby said studs may be firmly riveted in place, and said enlarged intermediate stud portions being also of a sufficient length to properly space the rollers 8 relative to said bracket members and to said carrier member.

By the arrangement of the inverted, rounded, grooved portions 4 on either side of said carrier member 2 at the top thereof,

the rollers which are preferably rounded at their edges have a tendency to always seek the bottom or lowermost points of said inverted grooves 4, and by also making the intermediate shouldered portion 9 of the studs 7 of the proper length, the carrier member will travel, freely and easily on said rollers without binding, and the necessity of providing retaining heads or devices on the inner ends of the studs for the rollers is obviated. Preferably, anidler or dolly 10, is journaled in the upper portion of the bracket- 5 so as to lie normally free of said carrier member but just a very slight distance thereabove. This limits the rocking movement ofthe carrier 2 with respect to its roller bearings 8 and binding due to the canting of the carrier member is thereby prevented.

The hanger bar or member 3 preferably comprises a tubular rod which has sleeved and fastened thereon bracket members 11. The outer end portion of the rod is preferably downturned or provided with a downturned extension 12 which serves as a handle for manipulating the hanger rack. The bracket members 11 are provided with upwardly projecting side members 13 which have inwardly projecting studs 14 thereon. These studs are similar to the studs 7 on the members 6 of the hereinbefore mentioned carrier brackets 5, and they have journaled thereon rollers 15 which are adapted to travel in the rounded grooves 4 on either side of the carrier member 2 at the bottom thereof. The brackets 11 are also provided with idlers or dollies 16 which are journaled thereon s'o as to normally lie free of said carrier member but just a slight distance from the bottom thereof in a manner corresponding substantially to the hereinbefore mentioned devices 10 on the carrier brackets 5. By this arrangement the hanger bar or member 3 will travel freely and easily lengthwise of said carrier member 2 without canting or binding.

Normally, the entire hanger rack is closed or retracted within the cabinet l. When it is desired to extend the rack, the handle 12 is grasped and the hanger bar 3 is pulled outwardly on the carrier member 2 until the outer bracket 11 or the rollers 15 thereon come in contact with a stop or stops at the front end of the carrier member, whereupon, a continued pull upon the handle 12 will move said carrier member 2 with the hanger bar 3 thereon outwardly until a stop or stops at the rear end of the carrier member comes in contact with the inner bracket 5 or the rollers 8 thereon, as shown in broken lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Preferably, the stops or abutments at the ends of the carrier member 2 are provided by parallel lugs or projections 17 which extend inwardly from end plates 18 at opposite ends of said carrier member. These lugs 17 are spaced apart a distance just suiiicient to permit them to straddle the end web portions of the carrier member 2 and they are provided wit-h alining holes 19 which are arranged to register with holes in said web portions of the carrier member so as to receive securing bolts or rivets 20. The end plates 18 with lugs 17 thereon serve to finish or ornament the ends of the carrier member and to strengthen the structure as well as to provide the limiting stops hereinbefore referred to.

Obviously, the device admits of considerable modification without departing from my invention, and, therefore, I do not wish to be limited to the exact construction and arrangement herein shown.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

An extensible hanger rack comprising a carrier member, said carrier member comprising two formed channel members placed back to back and rigidly secured togethers to constitute substantially an I-beam, the? flanged portions of said channel members being formed into rounded channels on either side of the structure lengthwise thereof and the upper channels being inverted, supporting brackets having oppositely mounted rollers arranged to engage said inverted, rounded upper channels for movably supporting said carrier member, a hanger member having brackets thereon provided with oppositely mounted rollers arranged to travel in the rounded lower channels of said carrier member, stops on each end of said carrier member `for limiting the outermost positions of said carrier member and said hanger member thereon, each of said stops comprising an end plate having inwardly projecting lugs arranged on either side of the web of said carrier member and secured thereto, and a manipulating handle on said hanger member.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses this 14th day of December, 1908, at St. Louis, Missouri.

ISAAC W. MILLER.

Witnesses:

G. A. PENNINGTON, J. B. MEGOWN.

Copies of this patentmay be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

